SimpleSets vs CoughWise
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
SimpleSets
This strength training app offers offline logging, a vast exercise catalog, and visual progress tracking. It syncs with Apple Health and supports Siri, making it easy to build and maintain a consistent workout routine without complications.
- Offline logging
- Apple Health integration
- Extensive exercise catalog
- Visual progress charts
- Customizable routines
- Friction-free logging tools
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TL;DR: A free, offline-first strength tracker with Apple Health sync, instant logging, zero sign-up, a huge exercise catalog, and charts that make progress obvious. SimpleSets is built for people who want to get stronger without complicating the process. Whether you’re lifting a few times a week or just trying to stay consistent with a couple quick sets, SimpleSets helps you build a routine that sticks. Beneath the simplicity are powerful features designed to make logging effortless and progress motivating: • Instant offline logging + seamless sync across iPhone and the web so your workouts stay available anywhere. • Apple Health, Health Connect, Siri, and Shortcuts support for hands-free logging and automatic syncing - your data stays private and under your control. • Motivation that feels good, not pushy: accountability buddies, streaks, reminders, weekly goals, and satisfying haptic moments. • Clear visual insights including weekly trends, 1RM charts, heatmaps, and your full workout history - spot patterns, plateaus, and wins at a glance. • A deep yet flexible exercise catalog with custom movements, duration-based exercises, templates, and CSV import from Strong apps. • Friction-free logging tools like Quick Log, widgets, and adaptive banners that help you capture sets before you forget them. • 100% free, no ads, no accounts - your data stays local, with optional cloud sync for multi-device continuity. SimpleSets keeps strength training approachable while still giving power users the tools they want. One set today becomes two sets tomorrow—and that’s how progress starts.
CoughWise
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CoughWise records your night on your iPhone and lets you hear it back. It counts possible cough-like sounds, and separately it ranks the night's own moments — so even a night that counted nothing still hands you something worth listening to. WHAT YOU GET IN THE MORNING • The whole night on a sound timeline, playable end to end and scrubbable to any point • A count of possible cough-like sounds, with a per-hour lane drawn under the same chart • Bursts, not just totals: coughs arrive in runs, and the report says how many runs held them • The moments that stood furthest above the room, ranked against each other and never counted as coughs — press play and judge each one yourself • Tap 'Not a cough' on a burst: the night recalculates on the spot and the list re-ranks • A plain-language morning report written on your iPhone, with the numbers it used shown beside it • A note for each night in your own words: a cold, a new pillow, the heating on TAKE IT TO THE APPOINTMENT The doctor-visit summary puts your nights on one page: how many you recorded and how many were complete, cough-like sounds per complete night, the clock hours they clustered in, the recent nights side by side, and your notes. A second page lists every night, and a CSV carries the same numbers. You can preview page one, built from your own nights, before you pay for anything. It describes your nights; it does not interpret them. ABOUT THE COUNT, PLAINLY CoughWise counts possible cough-like sounds. It may miss some and may count other sounds. This is an estimate for awareness, not a measurement or medical assessment. That sentence is on the morning report itself, not only on this page. NIGHTS THAT DID NOT GO TO PLAN A night that ended early is labelled partial. A night CoughWise could not analyse says exactly that, and shows no score, no count and no all-clear — because "there is no record of this night" and "this night was quiet" are not the same fact, and only one of them has been measured. The home-screen widget publishes nothing it cannot speak for, and clears rather than leaving yesterday's number under today's date. AND THE NIGHT ITSELF IS HARD TO LOSE The recording is written to disk as it goes and picked up again on the next launch, so a crash, a phone call, a flat battery or a full disk costs you the rest of the night rather than all of it. Star a night and its recording is never removed by the automatic clean-up. PRIVATE BY DESIGN Recording, playback, analysis, corrections, reminders, profiles and exports all run on this iPhone. Audio is never uploaded. There is no CoughWise account to create, no analytics or advertising SDK, and no tracking identifier. Purchases are handled by Apple. Delete a single night from its report, or erase everything in More. ONE PAYMENT Recording every night, the whole-night timeline, the ranked moments, corrections, notes, your morning report and your seven most recent nights are free and stay free. One purchase adds the doctor-visit summary (PDF and CSV), keeps every older night listed and playable while its audio is kept, the 28-day view, and extra sleeper profiles. It is a single one-time purchase, not a subscription: no trial, no renewal, and nothing to cancel. Restore Purchases is in the app. CoughWise is a wellness and self-tracking tool. It is not a medical device and does not diagnose, screen for, or assess any illness or condition. If a cough is persistent, severe, or getting worse, please see a doctor. Terms of Use: https://coughwise.keenshift.ai/terms Privacy Policy: https://coughwise.keenshift.ai/privacy
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: SimpleSets at none against CoughWise's 2. SimpleSets also leads on update cadence (every 2 days vs every 11 days) and device support (3 vs 1). On price, ads and iOS requirement there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. CoughWise sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $6.99 per month. SimpleSets asks for nothing beyond the download.
SimpleSets ships an update every 2 days, CoughWise every 11 days. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 13, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | SimpleSets | CoughWise |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 1 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 2 days — better | Every 11 days |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 72 MB | 4 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Kyle Venn | Mitaanshu Agarwal |
In-app purchases
SimpleSets
No in-app purchases
CoughWise
- CoughWise Premium Monthly7 Days trial$6.991 Month
- CoughWise Premium Yearly7 Days trial$34.991 Year









